Game board



March 2, 1943. P. cusANo GAME BOARD FiIed May 12, 1942 INVENTQR Paal (basane Patented Mar. 2, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention relates to games, and particularly to a game board of the shuilleboard type.

Shuiileboard tables are usually from fifteen to thirty feet long and the weights are delivered manually at one end of the board and are projected to the other end. It is customary to provide lines at the far end from the delivery end of the board and the count in scoring depends on the positions of the weights relative to said lines.

'I'his invention has for.its salient object to provide a game board of the shuiileboard type but so designed and arranged that the game can be played with a board much shorter than, or one-half the length of the usual shuilleboard.

Another object of the invention is to provide a game board of the shuflieboard type so constructed and arranged that the weights will rebound from the sides and the far end of the board and will be returned to the delivery end, the count being determined by the positions of the weights at the delivery end of the board.

Further objects of the invention will appear from the following specication taken in connection with the drawing which forms a part of this application, and in which Fig. 1 is a. top plan view of the game board constructed in accordance with the inventiom' Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation taken substantially on line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but taken sub.- stantially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the weights used in playing the game.

In the particular embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawing there is shown a game board supported on legs I and comprising a table enclosed by walls I2, I3, I4 and I5. The end wall I2 is the delivery end of the board and the other end wall I4 is disposed at the end which will be hereinafter designated as the far end.

The table has a iiat playing surface 20 and, as shown in Fig. 1, this playing surface extends to the end wall I4. At the delivery end of the board there is formed a gutter designated 2|, 22 and 23 and the narrowed portion of the board at the delivery end has scoring lines 24 and 25.

Portions of the side walls I3 and I 5 and the end wall. I4 are provided with resilient linings or surfaces designated 21, 28 and 29. At the upper ends of the walls I3, I4 and I5, overhanging ledges 30, 3l and 32 are provided for preventing the weights from jumping over the walls.

Thecross strip 33 extends across the board from the wall I3, to the wall I as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The game is played with weights such as that shown at 35 in Fig. 4, these weights usually being formed of metal. The weights are delivered manually at the delivery end of the board adjacent the end wall I2 and are pushed or projected toward the end I4. If a weight strikes either of the side buiers or linings 21 or 29, it will rebound and may strike the end buier 28. The walls or side rails are so constructed and the playing surface is so nished that the weights will slide smoothly and quietly and will rebound without jumping or bouncing. Obviously, various paths may be taken by the weights depending on the direction in which the weight is pushed, and Fig. 1 illustrates by dotted lines some of the paths that may be traversed. l The object of the game is to cause the weights to rebound and preferably come to rest within'one of the areas designated A or B, and determined by the.

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vice may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention the following claims. l

I claim:

1. A game board comprising a substantially at playing surface, a wall surrounding said surface, the wall at the delivery end of the board being spaced from the surface by a gutter, the portion of the game board playing surface re mote from the delivery end of the board extending to the remaining portion of said wall, said last named portion of the Wall having resilient cushions whereby playing elements projected from the delivery end will rebound therefrom, said playing surface having scoring areas at the delivery end of the surface.

2. A game board comprising a substantially iiat playing surface, a portion of the board at the end remote from the delivery end of the board being bounded by a walLhav'mg a resilient cushion at the edge of the board whereby weights will rebound therefrom,v said board having a scoring area at the delivery end thereof, said delivery end and scoring area being bounded on two sides and the end by a gutter.

3. A game board of the shuilie board type comprising a substantially ilat playing surface having the edges at one end of the surface partially surrounded by abutting walls having' rebound cushions and having a scoring section at the other and delivery end partially surrounded by a gutter'.

PAUL CUSANO.

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